Gone are the days when cigarette companies openly marketed their products without even a hint of a caution of warning about their myriad health risks. Today, everyone knows about the negative impact that smoking can have on health. Smoking poses a serious threat to the health not just of the smoker but also that of the people around them.
Research has shown that passive smoking may even be more dangerous to health than previously thought. Smoking in public spaces, especially confined public spaces is an offence and a health and safety hazard. The banning of smoking in enclosed public spaces is a positive law.
The nicotine in cigarettes causes a very strong addiction, and quitting is certainly not easy, especially for long term smokers. However, there are a number of quitting aids out there that can help smokers quit. The electronic cigarette is a new aid to hit the market, and aims to reproduce the experience of smoking with the help of flavoured steam.
The pleasures of smoking, are momentary but the damage that each cigarette causes to the body is permanent and severe. Cigarettes contain over four thousand toxic chemicals, most of them known carcinogens. It is no surprise then, that cigarettes are the primary cause of lung cancer.
Smoking has a number of adverse affects on health and can also cause premature aging not just in smokers but also in regular passive smokers. With smoking, there are no ups, only downs, and of those there are many.
